Write a short story about someone who refuses to write New Year's resolutions.

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“New Year's Grump🦋” by Aaliyah Miller

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"I'm done!" I breathed out exasperatedly. This resolution thing is stupid. It's stupid. No one ever sticks to them anyways. I sucked my teeth. In a few hours there is going to be a big party. "Huhhh!" my hands went my eyes. Phooo~ooooo. My hands were cold to the touch like always. Winter... it does that. The sound of the neighborhood kids altering each other that a car was coming woke me up. They always scream and shout. With snow on the floor they're probably having a snowball fight. My eyes drifted to the window. Out in the front yard my p...

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“ Establishing New Year's resolutions for me, a geek wedded Jew pitter = Big fat Nyat!” by Matthew Harris

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Lemme tell you about a fail safe stratagem of one dishabille smart ass dummy, who snubbed practice sustaining New Year's resolutions. His unbridled integrity, fidelity, and capacity (read no nonsense honorable devotee) lifetime staunch aversion toward global December thirty first aspirations contravenes (against sic establishmentarian coda) spelt general outline for his ignominious humiliating, yet grandiose failure existing for other diehard human flotsam and jetsam to emulate. Thus informal membership among fellow coterie comprising basket...

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“ Entertaining Yesterday Now ” by Jay Stempin

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“What’s the point?” “The point is: resolve to make a change in your life,” said Beatrice with soy-firm resiliency as she sliced her toast with a butter knife. “For the better?” “If you’re so inclined, I supposed that’d help.” Beatrice shrugged, her jade moon-faced necklace glittering in the morning light from the kitchen window. “Just do it.” What was she promoting: his need to craft a New Year’s resolution or a Nike ad for new cross-trainers? Jericho shook his head and began toying with the copper-colored button on his denim Levi’s jacket,...

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“Pancakes” by Sheryl Lee

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Robert wakes up with a grumbling belly. He checks his watch. It’s 10 am on the first day of the year. “Dammit,” he mutters, “so much for starting the year right.” He was gonna wake up much earlier to make his son breakfast for a change. He forgot to set the alarm. Instead, he woke up to David’s footsteps on the creaking wooden floor of their unfinished house.“Coffee?? Dad?” David yells from the small, filthy kitchen. It reeks of old animal fat.“You know it,” he yells back while putting on his rubber slippers and dragging his feet to the...

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“FLYING RESOLUTIONS” by Fazila KP

Submitted to Contest #25

Our family had a lot of traditions. I loved our traditions and our family gatherings were all of us kids (9 of us) got the chance to talk and share with mom and dad our dreams, hopes, problems, anything, and everything. It was our happy time. It was during one of these gatherings that mom and dad decided to put in a new tradition where we had to write in our New Year's Resolutions and read them aloud to become reality. Our family has magic and with the help of our magic, we could turn anything we write positively to be a reality. Me being t...

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“The Crumpled Paper” by Adelia Marsa Calista

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New Year’s Resolution: Falling out of love with James Julians. I almost laugh when I look down at the writing—my writing—on the crumpled paper that has been languishing under my bed for months. I never believed in resolution; I think it's just a myth made by pathetic people so they won't lose their way in the coming New Year. I always laugh at my sister, Mallory, who likes to write her resolutions on beautiful papers and decorate them like she is going to submit it for a competition. Then, the paper will be stuck to mirrors, walls, or refrig...

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“Two Englishmen” by Courtney Harler

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I refuse to make real New Year’s resolutions, but just before Christmas I resolve to start dating in a more measured way. I mean, like really dating with intent, not just…well, you know. But then I realize quickly that you can’t force such a relationship—it happens when it happens. Therefore, my dating app profile continues to read: I was here but y...

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Write a short story about someone who refuses to write New Year's resolutions.

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✍️ 37 stories

“New Year's Grump🦋” by Aaliyah Miller

“ Establishing New Year's resolutions for me, a geek wedded Jew pitter = Big fat Nyat!” by Matthew Harris

“ Entertaining Yesterday Now ” by Jay Stempin

“Pancakes” by Sheryl Lee

“FLYING RESOLUTIONS” by Fazila KP

“The Crumpled Paper” by Adelia Marsa Calista

“Two Englishmen” by Courtney Harler

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